"Get a Load of This! -- Glossary of 1930s Slang" Topic
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| Coelacanth | 16 Sep 2014 6:39 p.m. PST |
At pre-code.com there is a list of common 1930s colloquialisms and their meanings: link The site itself is pretty good, too. It reviews films from the beginning of "talkies" in 1927, up to the time in mid-1934 when the Motion Picture Production Code (AKA the Hays Code) began to be enforced. I'm spilling the beans on this so your next pulp game can paint the town red. And now I gotta scram. Ron P.S. They missed "High hat". |
| Jeigheff | 16 Sep 2014 6:48 p.m. PST |
I didn't know them all, but it's amazing how many of these terms are still used. Only a chump would disagree. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 16 Sep 2014 6:55 p.m. PST |
I knew most of them, and use a lot of them. I'm 45, and stuck in the 30's… |
| Weddier | 16 Sep 2014 7:30 p.m. PST |
Them mooks left out a lot. |
| Privateer4hire | 16 Sep 2014 9:05 p.m. PST |
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The G Dog  | 17 Sep 2014 5:13 a.m. PST |
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| Old Slow Trot | 17 Sep 2014 6:59 a.m. PST |
"Account currently unavailable". |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 17 Sep 2014 7:49 a.m. PST |
The Code must have kicked in. |
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